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Red Hat: CVE-2021-29948: CVE-2021-29948 Mozilla: Race condition when reading from disk while verifying signatures (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-29948: CVE-2021-29948 Mozilla: Race condition when reading from disk while verifying signatures (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
04/26/2021
Created
04/27/2021
Added
04/27/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

Signatures are written to disk before and read during verification, which might be subject to a race condition when a malicious local process or user is replacing the file. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.10.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-thunderbird-debugsource

References

  • CVE-2021-29948
  • RHSA-2021:1350
  • RHSA-2021:1351
  • RHSA-2021:1352
  • RHSA-2021:1353

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